[PATCH 2/2] mips: Remove rt_sigreturn usage on context function

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Mon Jun 3 17:33:00 GMT 2019


On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> As a side node, should we move these symbols to deprecated status?

I think POSIX considering these functions as obsolescent is because it's 
hard to define them in a way that's as portable as POSIX APIs try to be, 
not because POSIX provides a suitable replacement for the application uses 
of these APIs - much as with some other functions such as vfork.  That is, 
we should keep them as supported for applications trying to do less 
portable things using them, because the scope of applications supported by 
glibc is wider than that of portable applications supported by POSIX.

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Joseph S. Myers
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